Dr Penny Breeze

PhD

School of Medicine and Population Health

Senior Research Fellow

Postgraduate Research Lead for Population Health

Penny Breeze
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p.breeze@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5429

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Dr Penny Breeze
School of Medicine and Population Health
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Profile

Dr. Penny Breeze is a health economist and Senior Research Fellow based within the School of Medicine and Population Health at the University of Sheffield. She has worked at SCHARR since 2013. Dr Breeze’s joined the University of Sheffield as a PhD student. Her doctoral thesis investigated the use of health economic models to design drug development programs for systemic lupus erythematosus. Prior to her time at SCHARR, she applied her expertise in industry as a health economics consultant at IMS Health, where she developed cost-effectiveness models for pharmaceutical products.   

Qualifications

PhD University of Sheffield

Research interests

Dr. Breeze’s primary research has a specialized focus on solving complex public health decision problems. She is widely recognized for her contributions to tackling obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease through economic evidence.

- Complex systems modelling: Dr Breeze is interested in methods for complex systems modelling in health economics. She is working to develop a framework to better understand what a public health complex systems model is, provide structural guidance on when and how to implement it. 
- Microsimulation Modelling: One of her most significant contributions to date is the initial design and development of the School for Public Health Obesity and Diabetes Prevention microsimulation model. This framework evaluates diabetes and cardiovascular prevention strategies across varying risk groups, ranging from targeted individual programs to population-wide fiscal measures.  
- Policy Evaluation: Dr Breeze is a Co-Investigator on several NIHR public health research grant spanning evaluations of weight management and maintenance to local and national food policy.  

Publications

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Journal articles

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Journal articles

Conference proceedings

Reports

  • Hill J, Breeze P, Chrysanthou G, Bell H & Brennan A (2019) Summary report of the Health and Labour Outcomes (HaLO) Tool RIS download Bibtex download
  • Breeze PR, Thomas C, Squires H, Brennan A, Greaves C, Diggle P, Brunner E, Tabak A, Preston L & Chilcott J (2015) SPHR Diabetes Prevention Model: Detailed Description of Model Background, Methods, Assumptions and Parameters View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download

Software, code or databases

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Preprints

Research group

Health Economics and Decision Science

Grants
  • National Institute of Health Research. 'Evaluation of the Nursery Milk Scheme in England'
  • National Institute of Health Research: Public Health Research, ‘Impact of food environment policies and food insecurity on less healthy food consumption, obesity and health economic outcomes – a model-based appraisal’. 
  • National Institute of Health Research: School for Public Health Research. ‘Economic Evaluation of Calorie Labelling on out of home purchases - HPHP Food Systems Theme.’
  • National Institute of Health Research: Programme Grants for Applied Research, ‘Supporting Weight Management (SwIM): Evaluating the equity and cost-effectiveness of using acceptance-based guided self-help to improve long term outcomes of weight management interventions"’.
  • National Institute of Health Research: Public Health Research, ‘Health Economic Analysis incorporating effects on Labour outcomes, Households, Environment and Inequalities (HEALTHEI) for food taxes’.
  • National Institute of Health Research: Programme Grants for Applied Research, ‘New remission care pathway: Diabetes Adaptive Weight management Network "NewDAWN"’.
  • Population Health Agent-Based Simulation Network (PHASE). ‘Developing a proof-of-concept agent-based model of the relationship between food advertising and food choices in England’ .
  • National Institute of Health Research: Health Technology Appraisal, ‘Dietary Approaches to the Management Of type 2 Diabetes (DIAMOND) cluster randomised trial"’, £459,955.61, Co- investigator, 2021-2024.
  • National Institute of Health Research School for Public Health Research, Efficient and Equitable Public Health Systems ‘Evaluating the efficiency and equity impact of food policies to improve population health’.
  • National Institute of Health Research School for Public Health Research, Efficient and Equitable Public Health Systems ‘Develop and applying reporting guidelines for efficiency, equity and systems approaches’.
  • Wellcome Trust. ‘Wellcome Trust Doctoral Training Centre in Public Health, Economics and Decision Science (PHEDS): Assessing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of policies and prevention strategies that reduce noncommunicable disease burden and health inequity’.
  • National Institute of Health Research: Programme Grants for Applied Research, ‘Scalable behavioural weight management programme for the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes’.
Professional activities and memberships

Member of Associations for the Study of Obesity

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